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We performed a comparison between F5 Silverline Managed Services and Radware Bot Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"The most valuable feature of F5 Silverline Managed Services is the benchmark performance.""The initial setup is straightforward.""We have a lot of businesses that we put behind this solution, and it has really helped us in terms of monitoring the logs and incidents.""The initial setup is very straightforward.""The most important feature is that they have seven firewall protection, to protect our web servers.""F5 technical support is really good.""The most valuable feature of F5 Silverline Managed Services is it becomes similar to a distributed architecture.""The product’s UI is easy to understand."

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"The solution provides a rating of the sophistication of the bot attack.""It's very good at categorizing the different types of bots, whether they're malicious or good. Bot is a very generic term. It could be good, it could be bad. Quite a lot of legitimate businesses are using bot-type services to just scrape the internet for information.""I like how Bot Manager automatically detects when a suspicious user attempts to download content from your website.""The most valuable feature is the bot management itself and the way it has stopped bots from scraping our site, with its AI mechanism. Its ability to detect and mitigate bots is really good.""Bot Manager's behavioral modeling and intelligence help us distinguish between harmless and malicious bots.""Bot Manager is an excellent tool for analyzing traffic to detect suspicious patterns. It uses artificial intelligence to identify malicious behavior."

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Cons
"I just hope the price can be cheaper.""We need to have support for cloud protection, which is not offered by this solution.""F5 Silverline Managed Services can improve by adding features that Palo Alto has.""There is a lot of room for improvement with their tech support. I am not sure F5 Silverline Managed Services can be classified as having tech support.""In terms of the scalability, this part is always so confusing because they are checking for packet count. Also, after an attack, they said that the throughput must be from gigabits but then I check my bandwidth and it is already done in gigabits. So it is a little bit confusing.""The price is high in comparison to other products.""There is room for improvement in the stability of the solution.""The product could be improved on the global load and the integration with the other solution like Cisco and Dell. As a representor of the operation, we prefer to have one platform which can accommodate all type of integration. We are also looking for more improvements in the security policy configuration."

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"Radware Bot Manager is a little costly but not too expensive. It's in the middle.""Bot Manager is doing its job, but I think the behavioral modeling could be improved by adding fingerprinting and automation. Remediation should be automated so that it doesn't require any intervention by the user.""I would like more ability to configure custom rules. Currently, I need to open a ticket with support to request a specific rule that isn't available in the console. In some cases, I don't have visibility into the logs or they are too complicated to analyze.""We're missing links to their modules for installation and configuration. They have most of them available already, but there were situations for mobile applications that, when they released a new version, were not stable. We had to ask them to send a link by email, and that could be made accessible in the portal.""It would be beneficial to have a link from the WAF to the Bot Manager portal available so we do not have to log in again.""It would be good to have more integrations. It's very hard to get data in and out of their portal. It doesn't have any integrations with any of our tools, such as our SIEM tool. It only depends on emails. Having that tied into the warehouse, SIEM, and maybe our on-call tools would be very helpful because it would just give us a holistic picture of everything."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall works based on your bandwidth. They look at the clean bandwidth and do the pricing. 20% of a total pipe would be a clean bandwidth. The list price or a non-negotiated price for F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall would be around $2,200 per application per year for everything that you need. When you get into an enterprise kind of a setup, they negotiate this to the last bit. I would easily take 20% on that, which would be the cost, but it should cover all your Advance WAF features, bot protection, tech campaign, etc. It is built as a package and gives you most of the capability. You don't get the mobile SDK, which is an additional license. Mobile SDK is required only if you're buying or if you have a mobile application, and you are going to instrument F5 or Imperva into your mobile appliance. This anyways would be an additional module. It doesn't come within the WAF, but it is a WAF feature."
  • "The price of F5 Silverline Managed Services could be better, they are not very flexible. The price of the solution is based on the requirements of the enterprise."
  • "The price of F5 Silverline Managed Services could be reduced."
  • "The product’s pricing is reasonable."
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  • "We pay a fair price for each application we wish to protect."
  • "It is fairly priced."
  • "We negotiated a decent price with Radware that fits into our budget. It's a five-year license, so we get a good price and don't need to renew for several years."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:For ADC, any ADC can do a good job. But in case if you want to add WAF functionality to the same ADC hardware you have to look for other ADC's like F5, Imperva, Radware, Fortinet, etc. 
    Top Answer:Radware Bot Manager is a little costly but not too expensive. It's in the middle.
    Top Answer:We're missing links to their modules for installation and configuration. They have most of them available already, but there were situations for mobile applications that, when they released a new… more »
    Top Answer:Radware Bot Manager helps us detect and manage bot traffic. We also use Radware's AppWall as well as their DDoS and DLP solutions. Bot Manager is deployed at branch offices and our corporate… more »
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    Also Known As
    F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall, F5 Silverline DDoS Protection
    ShieldSquare, ShieldSquare Bot Mitigation and Bot Management
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    Overview

    F5's Silverline Managed Services is a SaaS solution delivering DDoS protection, managed Web Application Firewall (WAF) services, and managed Shape Security Fraud and Anti-bot solutions.

    Silverline services include 24x7 access to F5's Security Operations Center (SOC). F5's expert security professionals use F5 products with state-of-the-art security tools to ensure the best protection possible. As an add-on to Silverline DDoS or WAF services, Silverline Threat Intelligence integrates dynamic lists of threatening IP addresses to give context for policy decisions.

    Radware Bot Manager is a comprehensive solution designed to protect websites, mobile applications, and APIs from automated attacks. It uses advanced machine learning algorithms to detect and mitigate bot traffic in real-time, ensuring that legitimate users can access your services without interruption. With Bot Manager, you can gain visibility into your traffic patterns, identify malicious bots, and customize your security policies to meet your specific needs. Whether you're dealing with credential stuffing, content scraping, or other types of bot attacks, Bot Manager has the tools you need to stay ahead of the curve. With its easy-to-use interface and flexible deployment options, Bot Manager is the ideal solution for businesses of all sizes looking to safeguard their online assets.

    Radware Bot Manager Pros:

    • Effectively detects and blocks bots
    • User-friendly interface
    • Customizable settings
    • Improves website performance and user experience
    • Strong customer support
    • Integrates with other security solutions

    Radware Bot Manager Cons:

    • False positives
    • Cost
    • Complexity
    • Limited customization
    • Incomplete protection

    Radware Bot Manager is primarily used to protect websites and mobile apps from bot attacks, particularly those attempting to brute force passwords. It is preferred over other tools as it is better at understanding and stopping bot traffic. It is used to authenticate users and can be integrated with Google Authenticator, Facebook, Instagram, and security IDs. It is used by a loyalty program for several companies in Latin America, including retail companies and airlines.

    Radware Bot Manager's most Valuable Features:

    • Ability to rate the sophistication of bot attacks and provide information on the public IP and region of the attack
    • Helpful in displaying daily attack occurrences dashboard
    • User-friendly, intuitive, and aesthetically pleasing interface
    • Easy integration with Radware Cloud WAF
    • Effective ability to categorize different types of bots and detect and mitigate bots in real-time
    • Using artificial intelligence to identify malicious behavior, making it an excellent tool for analyzing traffic

    Reviews from Real Users

    Wilmer Beltran, Engineer at a transportation company, says that "Bot Manager is an excellent tool for analyzing traffic to detect suspicious patterns. It uses artificial intelligence to identify malicious behavior."

    Another PeerSpot user, Cloud Security Engineer at a financial services firm, states that Radware Bot Manager “Categorizes different types of bots very well and is very effective at detecting and mitigating bots in real time"

    Cristopher Torres, Cloud Engineering Lead at a aerospace/defense firm, writes that “It is easy to add applications and it improved our organization by preventing attacks”

    Sample Customers
    City Bank, Ricacorp Properties, Miele, American Systems, Bangladesh Post Office
    Pearson, Zulily, Purch, Groupe PSA, Yellow Pages, Axel Springer, Dorman, Penske, SeLoger.com, trovaprezzi.it
    Top Industries
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    Financial Services Firm44%
    Non Tech Company22%
    Individual & Family Service11%
    Comms Service Provider11%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm18%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Insurance Company9%
    Government8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm16%
    Retailer13%
    Computer Software Company11%
    Educational Organization6%
    Company Size
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    Small Business43%
    Midsize Enterprise7%
    Large Enterprise50%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business15%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise70%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business57%
    Midsize Enterprise29%
    Large Enterprise14%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business30%
    Midsize Enterprise22%
    Large Enterprise48%
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    F5 Silverline Managed Services is ranked 18th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 14 reviews while Radware Bot Manager is ranked 3rd in Bot Management with 8 reviews. F5 Silverline Managed Services is rated 7.6, while Radware Bot Manager is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of F5 Silverline Managed Services writes "It is flexible and lets you easily apply policies, but it needs to support more PoPs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Radware Bot Manager writes "Categorizes different types of bots very well and is very effective at detecting and mitigating bots in real time". F5 Silverline Managed Services is most compared with Cloudflare, Arbor DDoS, AWS WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), whereas Radware Bot Manager is most compared with Fastly, F5 Shape Security, AWS WAF, Akamai Bot Manager and Cloudflare.

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